SMU has a broad range of financial aid programmes, assistance schemes, grants and scholarships that allow incoming students and current students to receive the quality education that they desire, without the need to worry about affordability. The SMU Resilience Fund — a community fund — was established to help prioritise the welfare of students to ensure no one falls behind and instil the spirit of giving back and paying it forward for all its recipients. Hundreds of other need-based, bond-free scholarships are available too, including SMU merit-based scholarships and government and donor scholarships. The flagship ones are the SMU Global Impact Scholarship Award, Lee Kong Chian Scholars’ Programme, SMU Merit Scholarship Programme and Yip Pin Xiu Scholarship. These scholarships are bond-free.